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Cidade de Deus, Osasco, SP, December 4^th, 2009

Securities and Exchange Commission
Office of International Corporate Finance
Division of Corporate Finance
Washington, DC

Ref.: Complementary Interest on Own Capital

The Board of Directors of Banco Bradesco S.A., at a meeting held today, approved the Board of Executive Officers’ proposal for the payment to the Company’s shareholders of Complementary Interest on Own Capital in the amount of R$1,632,000,000.00, consisting of R$0.499755537 per common share and R$0.549731091 per preferred share.

The shareholders registered in the Company’s Books on this date (December 4^th, 2009) will be benefited. The Company’s shares will be traded “ex-right” on Complementary Interest from December 7^th, 2009 on.

The payment will be made on March 9^th, 2010 in the net amount of R$0.424792206 per common share and R$0.467271427 per preferred share, already net of Withholding Income Tax of 15% (fifteen percent), except for corporate shareholders that are exempt from the referred tax and will receive the declared amount.

The Complementary Interest approved represent, approximately, 38 times the monthly Dividends paid.

The Complementary Interest related to the shares in the custody of the BM&FBOVESPA S.A. – Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias e Futuros (Securities, Commodities and Future Exchange) will be paid to the referred BM&FBOVESPA S.A., which will transfer them to the shareholders through the Depository Agents.

Below, the demonstrative table of the values paid and to be paid related to 2009:

Monthly Dividends paid	464,651,281.90
Intermediary Interest of the 1st half paid	501,268,849.05
Subtotal – Paid Value	965,920,130.95
Monthly Dividends to be paid on January 4th , 2010 (*)	43,167,190.51
Complementary Interest to be paid on March 9th , 2010 (*)	1,632,000,000.00
Total	2,641,087,321.46

(*) including the shares issued in the capital stock increase approved at the Special Shareholders’ Meeting as of 10.29.2009, related to the merger of Ibi Participações S.A.

Type	Monthly Dividends	Intermediary Interest of 1st half.	Complementary Interest	Total
Common share	0.157429250	0.155520588	0.499755537	0.812705375
Preferred share	0.173172175	0.171072647	0.549731091	0.893975913

The Interest distributed will be computed, net of Withholding Income Tax, in the calculation of mandatory Dividends of the fiscal year, as provided in the Company’s Bylaws.

The Company may, based on the result to be determined at the end of the fiscal year of 2009, distribute new Interest and/or Dividends to the shareholders.

Cordially,

Banco Bradesco S.A.
Domingos Figueiredo de Abreu
Executive Vice President and
Investor Relations Officer

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